# excrement
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“I excrete”).

#### Noun

excrement (countable and uncountable, plural excrements)
* (now specifically) Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
* (archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or non-human animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
    Synonyms: excretion, excretum
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97:
    A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:feces

##### Derived terms

* excrementive
* excrementize
* Mexcrement

##### Related terms

* excreta
* excrete
* excremental
* excrementitious

##### Translations

Arabic: غَائِط m (ḡāʔiṭ), بِرَاز m (birāz), خَرَاء m (ḵarāʔ), خِرَاء m (ḵirāʔ)
Armenian: կղկղանք (hy) (kġkġankʻ)
Azerbaijani: nəcis
Balinese: tai
Belarusian: спаражне́ння n pl (sparažnjénnja), экскрыме́нты m pl (ekskrymjénty), кал m (kal), фека́ліі f pl (fjekálii)
Bulgarian: изпражне́ние (bg) n (izpražnénie), фека́лии f pl (fekálii), екскреме́нти (bg) m pl (ekskreménti)
Burmese: မစင် (my) (ma.cang), ချေး (my) (hkye:), အညစ်အကြေး (my) (a.nyaca.kre:)
Catalan: femta (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 屎 (si$^2$)
Dungan: дафын (dafɨn), сы (sɨ)
Mandarin: 大便 (zh) (dàbiàn), 屎 (zh) (shǐ), 糞 / 粪 (zh) (fèn)
Czech: výkal (cs) m, stolice (cs) f
Danish: ekskrement (da) n, afføring (da) c
Dutch: uitwerpselen (nl) n pl
Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
Egyptian: (ḥs)
Esperanto: feko (eo), ekskremento
Fijian: dā
Finnish: (animal excrement) lanta (fi), (human excrement) uloste (fi)
French: excrément (fr) m
Galician: excremento (gl) m
Gamilaraay: guna
Georgian: ექსკრემენტები (eksḳremenṭebi), ფეკალია (peḳalia), განავალი (ganavali)
German: Ausscheidungen (de) f pl, Kot (de) m
Greek: περίττωμα (el) n (períttoma)
Ancient: κοπρία f (kopría), σκῶρ n (skôr), (of humans) μίνθος m (mínthos), (of animals) ὄνθος m (ónthos)
Gujarati: ગૂ n (gū), હગાર f (hagār) (of birds), હંગણ n (haṅgaṇ), છી (chī)
Hawaiian: kūkae
Higaonon: ta-i
Hindi: टट्टी (hi) (ṭaṭṭī), मल (hi) m (mal), गू (hi) m (gū), गूह (hi) m (gūh), गुह (hi) m (guh), गोबर (hi) m (gobar), पाखाना (hi) m (pākhānā), विष्ठा (hi) f (viṣṭhā)
Hungarian: ürülék (hu)
Ido: exkremento (io)
Indonesian: tahi (id)
Italian: escremento (it) m
Japanese: 便 (ja) (ben), 大便 (ja) (daiben), うんこ (ja) (unko), うんち (ja) (unchi), 糞 (ja) (ふん, fun;くそ, kuso)
Javanese: tai (jv)
Khmer: គូទ (km) (kuut), វច្ច (km) (vaccaʼ), ឧច្ចារ (km) (ʼuccaaraʼ), លាមក (km) (liəmŭək)
Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), (human euphemism) 뒤 (ko) (dwi), 대변 (ko) (daebyeon)
Lao: ອາຈົມ (ʼā chom), ອຸດຈາຣະ (ʼut chā ra), ຂີ້ (lo) (khī)
Latin: fimum (la) n, ēgeriēs f, stercus (la) m
Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
Macedonian: и́змет m (ízmet), екскреме́нт m (ekskremént)
Malay: air besar (ms), tahi (ms), tinja (ms)
Malayalam: മലം (ml) (malaṁ), തീട്ടം (ml) (tīṭṭaṁ), കാട്ടം (ml) (kāṭṭaṁ) (non-human animals)
Maori: tae, tūtae, hamuti, paru, paranga, weta, karaweta, paraweta
Mokilese: pwije
Mongolian: баас (mn) (baas), шээс (mn) (šees)
Navajo: chąąʼ
Ngarrindjeri: kunar
Norwegian:
Bokmål: avføring (no) m or f
Nynorsk: avføring f
Ojibwe: moo
Old East Slavic: говьно n (govĭno) (vulgar in descendants)
Oromo: udaan
Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok)
Pitjantjatjara: kuna
Plautdietsch: Kak n
Polish: kał (pl) m, ekskrementy m pl, odchody (pl) m pl
Portuguese: excremento (pt) m, fezes (pt) f pl
Quechua: q'awa, aka (qu)
Romagnol: càca f
Romanian: excrement (ro) n pl, materii fecale, fecale
Russian: кал (ru) m (kal), экскреме́нты (ru) m pl (ekskreménty), испражне́ния (ru) n pl (ispražnénija), фека́лии (ru) f pl (fekálii)
Samoan: tae
Sanskrit: गूथ (sa) m (gūtha)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: екскремент m, измет m
Roman: ekskrement (sh) m, izmet (sh) m, izmetine (sh) f pl
Slovak: výkal m
Slovene: blato (sl) n, iztrebek m, izloček m
Spanish: excremento (es) m
Swedish: avföring (sv) c
Tausug: tai
Tedim Chin: eek
Tetum: teen
Thai: อาจม (aa-jom), อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), ขี้ (th) (kîi)
Tocharian B: weṃts
Turkish: dışkı (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́порожнення n (výporožnennja), екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty), кал m (kal), фека́лії f pl (fekáliji)
Urdu: گو (gu), گوہ (guh)
Uzbek: najas (uz), axlat (uz)
Vietnamese: phân (vi), cứt (vi)
Warlpiri: kuna
Zande: mire
Zazaki: gi (diq) n
Zhuang: haex :

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“I grow out”).

#### Noun

excrement (plural excrements)
* (obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails, etc.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əks.kɾəˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əks.kɾəˈment]
* IPA: (Valencia) [eks.kɾeˈment]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

excrement m (plural excrements)
* (also in the plural) excrement

#### Derived terms

* excremental
* excrementar
* excrementici
* excrementós

### Further reading

* “excrement” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “excrement”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “excrement” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “excrement” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Verb

excrement
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of excremō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French excrément, Latin excrementum.

### Noun

excrement n (plural excremente)
* excrement, feces
    Synonyms: fecale; (slang) rahat; (vulgar) căcat; (of animals) baligă

#### Synonyms

* (popular) scârnă, scremet